Chapter Ninety-Nine: Disciple of the Ghost King
The perception made Bai Ze's blood boil, and he couldn't sleep at all, so he simply exercised in the courtyard until dawn, packed up after breakfast, and wandered around the town with a sword.
It was late at night when he came, and Bai Ze didn't stay in the town yesterday, and today was the first time he wandered around the town. At a glance, there are really a lot of monks in this town.
Bai Ze didn't take two steps, and saw several Taoist priests with aura on their bodies, two of them were setting up stalls on the side of the road, looking at the hot business, it should be considered a hexagram or a good luck, and the other should be the person who played a strange trick that Xiao Er said yesterday.
The man who played the trick today not only knocked the frog and played music, but also carried a rucksack behind him, which contained more than a dozen mice. A small wooden frame is hung on the shoulders and placed in front of him, forming a small stage.
The man had a ghostly make-up painted with theatrical tusks on his face, banging on a frog and babbling and singing. The little mouse in the backpack heard the scene and crawled out to the beat.
Masks and costumes adorned with their hands behind their backs, these rats began to play along with the tune, and the movements and emotions they performed were all consistent with the tune.
The man played with a frog and acted with a mouse, which attracted a large crowd to watch. The crowd was amazed, and even a few practitioners with spiritual energy gathered at the edge of the crowd to watch his tricks of controlling animals.
Soon, a boy who came to Zizhen to play was attracted, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and first rewarded him with ten taels of silver. But he still couldn't resist the desire in his heart, and stopped the man who was making the show, and wanted to buy his frog at a great price.
The trickster pretended not to want to sell it, and even though the boy had already offered a high price of a few hundred taels of silver, he still refused.
The people around also coaxed and praised this frog rat for its spirituality, which is much more interesting than the famous cat and dog and the famous cricket cockfight.
In the end, the boy gritted his teeth and offered a sky-high price of 1,000 taels of silver, and finally bought the juggler's frog and rat.
The frog mouse reached the hand of Brother Gongzi, and Brother Gongzi tried to tap it, and sure enough, the frog sang, and the mouse acted and danced. Brother Childe left satisfied, and the juggler took the silver ticket, and disappeared from the crowd in a blink of an eye.
Bai Ze may not have been able to discover the tricks of the jugglers yesterday, but last night he felt his strength and had another layer of understanding of the soul matter, and he saw through the juggler at a glance that the juggler had deceived the boy.
These frogs are not naturally intelligent monsters at all, just a group of short-lived ghosts who will be scattered in a few days.
Man is born with three souls, namely the main soul, the awakened soul, and the living soul. The main soul often travels in the sky with a little will, with good and evil merits, it is the outer door to communicate with heaven and earth, and it is the main soul that cultivates the original god. The awakened soul holds the consciousness, and he is the one who will go to the underworld after death. The living soul belongs to life itself, ruling the seven spirits, the physical body is born, the soul is there, and the physical body is dead, the soul is scattered, and the master is in charge of life.
Most plants have only living souls, and animals only have main souls and living souls. Therefore, plants and animals will go through many years of physical fitness and vigorous souls, so as to slowly realize and give birth to the soul of awakening, which is also the threshold of demon cultivation of "Tongzhi".
However, these frogs and rats in front of them were forcibly poured into the souls that obviously did not belong to them, although they were temporarily made to understand their minds, but it didn't take a few days for the foreign souls to squeeze the souls, so as to disperse the seven spirits on their bodies, and soon these frogs and rats would die of five labors and seven injuries.
Bai Ze didn't expose this person, and it was also people's ability to deceive people, but he was a little interested in this person's method of drawing souls and transferring souls, so he followed and wanted to trade and borrow them.
Obviously, Bai Ze is not the only one who is interested in this method, although they can't understand the problem of frog and mouse souls without cultivating their gods, they can also feel that this method of controlling animals is very unusual.
The three fellow monks in the crowd quietly followed behind the juggler. Although they are interested in making money, they will definitely not directly rob them, after all, no one always wants to fight for life and death.
But when they talk to the juggler, if they find out that this person is very weak, and the price is not in line with their wishes, the consequences can be imagined.
However, Bai Ze wanted to borrow other people's secret methods, and his behavior was not nobler than these three people. It can only be said that on the path of cultivation where individual strength is respected and desires can be satisfied to the maximum, it is really not easy to maintain a conscience towards strangers and weaklings.
A few people with different ghosts chased them all the way out of the town, and the juggler monk seemed to be completely unaware of it, and walked to the sparsely populated area on his own.
Bai Ze gradually became suspicious, even if the three of them had concealed the juggling monk, but half of his spell was useless, so blatantly following behind others, could it be that the juggling monk was really blind?
Bai Ze stopped, judging from the control of the atmosphere of the deception scene, the juggler monk must be an old Jianghu, he didn't believe that the man was a fool,
Most of the monks who have been active in Linzi Town in the past few days will participate in the mountain market tonight, and they should see each other again when the time comes, Bai Ze turned around and returned to Linzi Town, not planning to continue wading through this troubled water.
Looking at Bai Ze's back without looking back, the three monks were also a little dumbfounded, they always thought that Bai Ze was a newcomer who didn't even know stealth techniques and wanted to learn from other people's robbery.
Originally, they planned to let Bai Ze take the lead and go up to test a wave, and then decide whether to eat this monk they had never seen before, but now the pathfinder Meng Xin suddenly retreated, and the three of them advanced or retreated.
As he walked, the juggler slowly removed his makeup, revealing a bony face as iron-blue as dead wood.
Although he didn't look back, he knew that Bai Ze was leaving. The thin monk stopped, sighed regretfully, turned around, glanced at the back of Bai Ze, who would definitely not be able to catch up, and walked slowly towards the three monks.
"Cough, cough ......" This thin monk seems to be in very bad health, coughing while walking, his face is more iron-blue, more like a ghost than like a human.
The three monks vaguely felt that something was wrong, but they still thought that this man could not see him, and quietly retreated slowly.
"I wanted to fool a few fools, make a small fortune, and go to the mountain market to buy some medicine at night, but I didn't want to usher in an unexpected joy and catch an amazing big fish. ”
The thin monk patted his chest, stared at the three of them with a pair of dead fish eyes covered with white puffs, and continued:
"If you weren't worried about the big fish, you wouldn't have gone so far. Now that the big fish has run away, you three little shrimps keep the valuable things on your body, and don't damage my property when you die for a while. ”
As he spoke, the thin monk took out a paper man from his bosom, which was holding a spear and his eyebrows and eyes were vivid, like a living person.